Five years ago I posted a short entry explaining why it would be wrong for the United States to intervene in Syria's civil war. A year after that I posted another entry explaining why it indeed was wrong for President Obama to go down that road. It's time to re-visit this subject for the Trump administration because the situation keeps getting worse, what with the news that the United States has shot down a Syrian jet fighter.
The law governing the international use of force is well-established, thanks in large part to the United States following World War II. As I've outlined in detail and repeatedly in my entries under the label "war," international force may be used only when: 1) a state is defending itself from attack; 2) a state is defending another state from attack; and 3) the Security Council authorizes force. As I've also discussed on prior occasions under the label "war," the United States consistently has disregarded, violated, and trashed these rules ever since helping establish them, a sick irony that is playing out again. Syria is in the midst of a civil war, which is not an international conflict and does not trigger any right of the United States to use force. Yet the United States illegally has inserted itself into this conflict on the side of the rebels.
By committing this sort of aggression, the United States has vested every other country on Earth with a legal right to come to Syria's defense by attacking us. This is how self-defense and collective-defense work. Russia is well within its rights to serve warning that it will take action if necessary.
It's unfortunate that Trump has not delivered on his promise to end these foreign misadventures and re-focus our energies at home, but then again, the entire weight of the entrenched establishment (and its mindless followers) is against him, so I doubt he can change course even if he truly wishes to do so. We are on the verge of chaos in both the international and domestic spheres. All of it is the natural and foreseeable consequence of modern man's impetuous inability to maintain the rule of law. But conflagration is also nature's way of clearing out deadwood and making room for new growth, I suppose.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Friday, June 16, 2017
The Left Should Think Twice About A Civil War
Earlier this week a rabid Trump hater -- whose Facebook posts could easily get lost in the jumble of diatribes dappling my own newsfeed -- gunned down several members of Congress on a baseball diamond. This is just the latest and most prominent of several violent attacks by the "enlightened" and "tolerant" cohort, who apparently believe that enforcing immigration laws and preserving any semblance of a sovereign nation are hanging offenses. There is talk of how this simmering resentment will burst forth into a new Civil War at any moment.
Fine by me. If America's fifth column really wants to come out in the open and make war on the rest of us, it will be signing its own death warrant. These people are accustomed to wielding violence through the ballot box and are amateurs when it comes to getting their own hands dirty. Consider that the would-be congressional assassin got off 50 shots on an open field of sitting ducks yet made only a few hits with no fatalities. The violence of a leftist is nothing more than a temper tantrum; it can and will be put down hard by millions of quiet, purposeful Americans who own guns, practice with them, and know how to use them if and when necessary to defend themselves.
I would be much happier if some states seceded and took this rabble with them. We could peacefully go our separate ways and let them pursue their failed and fevered visions elsewhere. But deep down I suspect this won't happen because, as parasites, these people know they can't make it on their own and feel entitled to compel all of us to support and subsidize them.
Game on, then. Let us bring the ugliness of political violence out into the open and deal with it, rather than administer it antiseptically while pretending that we still have a rule of law. We haven't for a long time now. As soon as we made the Faustian bargain to reject the law in the pursuit of "the good," we sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind.
Fine by me. If America's fifth column really wants to come out in the open and make war on the rest of us, it will be signing its own death warrant. These people are accustomed to wielding violence through the ballot box and are amateurs when it comes to getting their own hands dirty. Consider that the would-be congressional assassin got off 50 shots on an open field of sitting ducks yet made only a few hits with no fatalities. The violence of a leftist is nothing more than a temper tantrum; it can and will be put down hard by millions of quiet, purposeful Americans who own guns, practice with them, and know how to use them if and when necessary to defend themselves.
I would be much happier if some states seceded and took this rabble with them. We could peacefully go our separate ways and let them pursue their failed and fevered visions elsewhere. But deep down I suspect this won't happen because, as parasites, these people know they can't make it on their own and feel entitled to compel all of us to support and subsidize them.
Game on, then. Let us bring the ugliness of political violence out into the open and deal with it, rather than administer it antiseptically while pretending that we still have a rule of law. We haven't for a long time now. As soon as we made the Faustian bargain to reject the law in the pursuit of "the good," we sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
My Book Is Being Proofed
Finally, I have completed drafting my latest book manuscript and should receive a proof of it next month, after which it will soon be available in print and e-book format. This is the third and final book in a series I started over a decade ago.
The first one discussed the various ways that the federal government has become renegade and operates almost entirely outside the Constitution, and it is called Unlawful Government: Preserving America In A Post-Constitutional Age. The second one discussed the various ways that the federal government (and other governments) are attempting to consolidate power on the world stage and thereby destroy international law along with the nation-state, and it is titled Unlawful Government: The Gathering Threat Of Global Hegemony.
This third one will discuss more than just law and government, but will also explore the various ways that the society supporting them is collapsing. In the realms of family, faith, education, freedom of speech and association, entertainment, economics, litigation, immigration, as well as government, America is falling to pieces. It seemed only natural to call the book Unlawful Government: Societal Collapse. Though only about one hundred pages in length, it's a double-barreled blast at just about every aspect of modern life.
For the cover art I have selected the incredible painting Destruction by Thomas Cole:
The first one discussed the various ways that the federal government has become renegade and operates almost entirely outside the Constitution, and it is called Unlawful Government: Preserving America In A Post-Constitutional Age. The second one discussed the various ways that the federal government (and other governments) are attempting to consolidate power on the world stage and thereby destroy international law along with the nation-state, and it is titled Unlawful Government: The Gathering Threat Of Global Hegemony.
This third one will discuss more than just law and government, but will also explore the various ways that the society supporting them is collapsing. In the realms of family, faith, education, freedom of speech and association, entertainment, economics, litigation, immigration, as well as government, America is falling to pieces. It seemed only natural to call the book Unlawful Government: Societal Collapse. Though only about one hundred pages in length, it's a double-barreled blast at just about every aspect of modern life.
For the cover art I have selected the incredible painting Destruction by Thomas Cole:
Friday, June 2, 2017
Well Played On The Paris Climate Farce, Mr. Trump
The news headlines and my Facebook feed are positively frothing over the fact that Donald Trump has chosen not to subjugate the American people to a globalist bureaucracy or environmentalist cultism. Good. Environmentalism and the narrative surrounding "global warming," "climate change," and any other catchphrase du jour are a complete farce, both philosophically and empirically (my posts under the label "environmentalism" explain this in detail). The more that people who advocate this garbage are upset, the more I know that something worthwhile is happening.
To be fully accurate, there are two classes of people who advocate environmentalism. One is the globalists who hate national sovereignty and desire power for power's sake; they use environmentalism as the latest narrative to justify their quest, since outright socialism doesn't sell as effectively anymore (as the old saying goes, environmentalists tend to be watermelons -- green on the outside but red on the inside). The other class of people who advocate environmentalism are the useful idiots who lap up the globalists' narrative and take it seriously; they have no sense of the metaphysical or the divine, and they eagerly latch onto the narrative peddled by their intellectual superiors for want of anything more substantial to believe in.
It continues to amaze me that so many Americans are willing to sacrifice their freedom and independence, and that they hate the man who is trying -- however imperfectly -- to preserve it for them. But then again, a true slave hates no man more than his liberator.
EDIT
I neglected to mention a third category of people who advocate environmentalism: crony-capitalist parasites who stand to gain by regulating their competitors out of business while reaping subsidies from the public trough. A perfect example of this is the execrable Elon Musk, whose Tesla boondoggle exists only by virtue of my tax dollars, and who predictably has harsh words for Trump. If the federal government strictly adhered to the Constitution and terminated all these regulations and subsidies, creatures such as Musk would go the way of the Dodo.
To be fully accurate, there are two classes of people who advocate environmentalism. One is the globalists who hate national sovereignty and desire power for power's sake; they use environmentalism as the latest narrative to justify their quest, since outright socialism doesn't sell as effectively anymore (as the old saying goes, environmentalists tend to be watermelons -- green on the outside but red on the inside). The other class of people who advocate environmentalism are the useful idiots who lap up the globalists' narrative and take it seriously; they have no sense of the metaphysical or the divine, and they eagerly latch onto the narrative peddled by their intellectual superiors for want of anything more substantial to believe in.
It continues to amaze me that so many Americans are willing to sacrifice their freedom and independence, and that they hate the man who is trying -- however imperfectly -- to preserve it for them. But then again, a true slave hates no man more than his liberator.
EDIT
I neglected to mention a third category of people who advocate environmentalism: crony-capitalist parasites who stand to gain by regulating their competitors out of business while reaping subsidies from the public trough. A perfect example of this is the execrable Elon Musk, whose Tesla boondoggle exists only by virtue of my tax dollars, and who predictably has harsh words for Trump. If the federal government strictly adhered to the Constitution and terminated all these regulations and subsidies, creatures such as Musk would go the way of the Dodo.
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